"Coming soon to a bigger picture television screen near you: Brian Burke, Ron Wilson (assuming he's still the coach) and your Toronto Maple Leafs, the first Canadian team to be involved in the National Hockey League's Winter Classic.

While it has yet to be announced or officially confirmed, it certainly seems apparent that the Leafs will play the Detroit Red Wings outdoors next January at the University of Michigan.

And what's surprising about this is that NBC, the American network that puts so much into televising the Winter Classic, is on board with having a Canadian team involved, especially considering that NBC rarely, if ever, features a Canadian team on any of its weekly NHL telecasts."